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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is self scan that rare around you? One of our (Latvia) two big brand supermarkets have scanners you carry around, then deposit at the slef checkout lines. The other one, however, I just scan everything with my phone, then at checkout scan a QR code with my phone and pay.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah unfortunately don't have those at our nearest places. But I know the UK had lots of them